[…] the wider industry attitudes to film preservation at this time?AM: Well, the film archives weren’t, in general, independent organisations. There was Rank film archives in the UK, so it was very much the distributors who owned all this property which had future value that they wanted to preserve. So[…]
[…]t I loved it. I have my own dugout canoe and a driver and I used to race around the place. I was doing second unit director, chores and editing with Frank Keller. I was sort of the CO editor on it. And we had one move the other so we used to do shifts of editing. And it was quite fun. And anyway, Mi[…]
[…]y can't help push you through it really, really. Show business is really tough in that sort of way. If you haven't got the ability, you don't get on frankly. It also, I think it's pretty encouraging that as long as you can keep your marbles, you can be a star at eighty, you know. Darrol Blake&n[…]
[…]ecame a powerful weapon for the army, the rocket Typhoons.00:12:30 – 00:42:25 609 squadron became attached to the army and were sent to Normandy; Cab Rank, a system designed to provide maximum support for the army; more discussion of the rocket Typhoons and his operations during WWII.Side 300:00:00 […]
[…]hild that used to go to the pictures two or three times a week I certainly wanted to be in the film industry and had written all the usual letters to Rank and to Sound City at Shepperton, any names I could get that were appertaining to the film industry I had written a letter and got all the usual l[…]
[…]ry much. I adored Huw Weldon, he was a very, very good producer, and a sympathetic producer and quite a critical one. And I didn't think much of him frankly fronting the programme. I think he moved his hands around too much and rather fond of his own voice. But he was a wonderful producer for me. An[…]
